Re: offlineimap / uw-imapd / mutt

[Andrew Cowie <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 02:53, John Goerzen wrote:

> My recommendation is to avoid UW-IMAPd.  Others have reported this problem
> before.

The trouble with a recommendation like that is that many people *can't*
avoid whatever their upstream mail server is.

I don't control the server I receive my mail on. There are many servers
I *do* control, but it just so happens that I've outsourced my primary
MX machine to ensure that it's located in a good datacenter and it's
maintenance is taken care of. Their service is great, but they seem to
use UW-IMAPd. There's nothing I can do about that, short of finding a
new ISP.

I had the same response from the evolution developers. "Use courier".
Fine, but especially in a corporate environment, one usually doesn't
have control of the upstream server. 

Unfortunately UW-IMAPd  installations are deeply rooted. Sort of leaves
me (and many others) stuck. Kind of a bummer seeing as how it is the
reference implementation of IMAP and all that.

Offlineimap is awesome (I constantly tell the evolution developers I use
offlineimap in preference to their built in IMAP code because their
offline foldering  doesn't ever work). Hope you continue to work on it.

Cheers,

Andrew

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